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Traditional Firearms => Flintlock Long Guns => Topic started by: windwalker_au on September 25, 2008, 11:47:22 AM
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this was it the latest isue of australian shooter its the puckle defence gun,patented may 15 1718 by james puckle of london,its a good read.
bernie
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cool, thanks for sharing.
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yep . but there is alittle more to the story of this gun .
as i understand it . it also shot a Square projectile . as the story goes , this was because Turks at the time beloved that to be killed by a square projectile would stop them from going to the promise land and deliver them strait to the under world . IE do not pass go , do not collect 500 bucks . Hence the reason for the square Turkish chambers . Some where around here I have as much longer and in-depth article on this piece.
it also is not a really a breech loader but actually uses a flintlock cartridge which is independently loaded and set to the drum
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: a fintlock machine-gun
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this was it the latest isue of australian shooter its the puckle defence gun,patented may 15 1718 by james puckle of london,its a good read.
bernie
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cool, thanks for sharing.
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yep . but there is alittle more to the story of this gun .
as i understand it . it also shot a Square projectile . as the story goes , this was because Turks at the time beloved that to be killed by a square projectile would stop them from going to the promise land and deliver them strait to the under world . IE do not pass go , do not collect 500 bucks . Hence the reason for the square Turkish chambers . Some where around here I have as much longer and in-depth article on this piece.
it also is not a really a breech loader but actually uses a flintlock cartridge which is independently loaded and set to the drum
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Captchee its just such an interesting piece and may be the western world should start using square bullets agian lol.
bernie
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I believe a couple were sent on an expedition to the South Seas...But there's no record of their use...One is still in the Royal Armouries collection.
Steve
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I need more! I see one cock and frizzen. How does it get primed for each shot? Must be something I'm missing, or the rate of fire would be seriously slowed by having to reprime for each shot!!!
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I need more! I see one cock and frizzen. How does it get primed for each shot? Must be something I'm missing, or the rate of fire would be seriously slowed by having to reprime for each shot!!!
its my understanding that each cartradge has its own prime . i you look at the drawing that i posted , on the cartradge you will see alittle door . this door slides forward just as early revolvers did. under that door is the pan and it holds the powder
if you look on the cartradges in the artical windwalker posted , you can also see the doors
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